Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-01-14


bribing aldermen to pass the Broadway
railroad franchise of New York city, was
denied change of venue Monday.
john ROACH, the well known ship build
er, died at O'Clock Monday morning a.
his residence in Fifth avenue, city of
New York.
THERK is gradually extending opin-
ION that the marriage and divorce laws
of the different States should be made
uniform. In twenty-three of the thirty
eight States a prier undissolved mar
riage sets aside new union. In twenty
insanity does the same; in seventeen non
age, and in thirteen fraud. There are
grounds for declaring the marriage null
and void abinitio. Discretion as a ground
for divorce varies in length and charac-
ter In many States.
In his new paper, the Standard, Henry
George announces that one of the things
he will combat is ''the false theories that
assume that nation s prosperity lies in
shutting itself in from free intercourse
with other nations" In other words,
Mr.. George will fight for free trade. 1t is
not very hopeful foundation to build
Newspaper on just now in this country.
SouTH CAROLINA is the only tate in the
union that has no divorce law upon the
statute books. She doesn't grant a divorce
for any cause whatever and she has new
or had divorce law in her history. The
only advantage that has thus far been e1-
perienced grom this singular state of
things is, that it is thought to have ten
dency to increase ceIibacy among peo
Pile who realize that, having once jumped
in, they can never jump out, without
emigrating.
CHARLES BEADLAUGH the great English
radical, prints in the North American
Review a powerful article entitled $50
cialism Exposed in which he handl es
that heresy without gloves. He shows
where tho system is weak, mischievous
have been in the habit of quoting Mr.. |
Bfadlaugh so freely the past fifteen or
twenty years, should not fail TO read this,
and any citizen will greatly profit in do
ing so whether of radical or conservative
mind.
ENdLkND has become alarmed Mt the |
Of Iotn
of Atlanta, and doesn't propose to have |
them invade her sacred soil because their |
captain liz nm Irshman Self preserva-
tion is the first law of nature, and it !
would be II narrowing and appalling |
spectacle-that of picnic company of |
American militia going through their |
little drills right in Britain's capital re-
sponsive to a broad irish accent in com
mand. Englands example will doubtless
set the long roll sounding throughout
Europe and the on the whole, the guards |
had better stay at home.
WRITER in the San Francisco Chron-
iSie tells of glass road bed in the Yel-
park volcanic glass, or obsidian, aboun DIS
aud TO make n oarriageway fires were
built along the proposed route, and then
when cold water was dashed upon the !
heated surface, thus cooling it uddenly, |
the glass broke into fragments, which |
were easily removed, until thus n road |
itaG
that the glass oozes from the rocks like |
gum from q tree. 1t is almost black, |
quite opaque, and the edges of it, when
chopped off at Il proper angle, are rs
sharp as razors. or it the Indians |
fashioned arrow heads, weapons, and |
tools
PoLrTIcAL economists have asserted |
that no city can safely harbor moro |
than one million inhabitants. The New |
York Herald argues that it is true and |
the people evidently believe it and are |
acting upon it. They have quite large |
colony in Canada, Jaehne and McQuade |
have taken up their residence in quiet
boarding house away from the city and
the venerable Jacob Sharp and some
friends seem to be impressed with the
idea that there are healthiec places than
New York and contemplate changing |
their quarters. few hundreds have al |
SO departed for Europe and South Amer
ica.
MR HARD GIppENs, of Berrien county, |
Ga, is proud of his war record. He en-
listed at the beginning of the rebellion |
and fought through the war. in the bat
tie of Chickamauga his clothing was torn
in twenty seven pieces by the bullets, on
ly two of which touched his flesh, cutting
the skin on the left hip and glazing the
little finger of the left hand. One bullet
cut his shoostriug in two, another burst
his canteen, one cut his cartrige belt in
two, one tore the leaf OF his cap off, and
one shot the breeoh of his gun in two
while he was shooting. His regiment
went into the fight with about 700 men,
aud came out with about twenty seven.
His company were all killed, wounded
and captured except one, and his clothing
was riddled with bullets.
THERr are nearly 5000 INDECENT soldiers
and sailors who do not receive pensions,
who are supported in almshouses and
other public charitable institutions in
the United States. Under these circum-
stances complaint is made with justice
that the policy of allowing ex-soldiers
who are receiving pensions, some as high
1850 a month, to remain in the Soldiers
MONIES to the exclusion of those who
receive no pensions is unfair. In the
homes the eI-soldisrs are maintained at
the public expense and have their pen
sions in addition. The pension bureau
is one of the weakest departments Of
our government. II il does act of